Big Country Intelligent Manufacturing

"Eh? Have you come up with a reasonable task flow and data flow exchange plan?" After hearing Zhou Jiawei's question, Professor Gong couldn't help being taken aback.Although the CPU of a supercomputer is mainly the main core of the heap, it is not that simple.Otherwise, only developed countries in the world have the ability to develop supercomputers.

The more main cores of this kind of CPU, the exchange management of task flow and data flow between main core and main core becomes very important.Otherwise, data congestion will occur, and the full performance of many-core CPUs will not be able to play.

In this regard, the world's only IBM CPU's instruction set system is doing better, and it is currently the world's top many-core CPU.It was not until the emergence of Intel’s Xeon CPUs in the United States that this situation was broken.

For this reason, after completing the Galaxy III project, Professor Long’s team has already used the Longteng EDA software to design the Galaxy IV CPU.

According to their vision, I can design the CPU myself, at least to catch up with IBM.For CPU tape-out, it can be handed over to Yiming Group Company for foundry.

But now, Zhou Jiawei has taken out the CPU code-named "Dawn I", what should they do?Should we continue to design, or let Yiming Group do it for us?

Facing such a difficult problem, Professor Gong didn't dare to make decisions casually, and looked at Professor Long beside him.

Professor Long was not an ordinary person. He froze for a while, and then calmed down and asked, "Director Zhou, what are the design parameters of your Dawning ICPU? Do you need us to provide a parallel algorithm model?"

"Haha...no need. We did it once. We already know that the parallel algorithm model you provide, Sugon ICPU is backward compatible, and will not conflict with Galaxy III." Zhou Jiawei smiled and changed the various aspects of Sugon ICPU. The technical parameters are briefly reported.

The main frequency of this CPU is 266-280Mhz; the primary cache is 256M, the secondary cache is 512M; the main core is 256.

Of course, there is another technical solution that reduces the main core by half, and the first level cache and the second level cache by more than half. The key depends on how Professor Long makes the decision.

"It's still a great time for our own country to be able to make CPUs. You can stack the main cores as many as you want!" After listening to Zhou Jiawei's introduction, Professor Long thought.

According to his vision, the main core of Sugon ICPU can reach 128. The key depends on how they design the chipset and computer motherboard for system layout.

However, Professor Long did not resist the temptation of 256 main cores."Director Zhou, if the 256-core solution is used, will the volume of Sugon I be too large and how about the heat generation?"

Professor Long is very worried about this problem.If the volume of Dawning I is too large, he will give up the 256-core solution without hesitation.Otherwise it will increase the difficulty for them to design motherboards and chipsets.

At this time, Zhou Jiawei smiled at him, "Professor Long, don’t you know that we have adopted the third-generation lithography machine? There is this type of lithography machine, plus we use the most advanced Foundry process technology, the same The area of ​​Dawn I can double the number of transistors."

He told Professor Long that Sugon I will use the world's most advanced 130-nanometer process technology, and the chip's heat output will be reduced by about 40%.

At present, only Yiming Group can produce 130nm chips in the world.Therefore, once Sugon I is on the market, it will actually be the world's most advanced supercomputer CPU.

"Well... Great. I didn't even dare to imagine this kind of thing in the 1980s!" After hearing Zhou Jiawei's explanation, Professor Long couldn't help but sigh.

In his opinion, the birth of Yiming Group was really a bit unexpected, and he was overtaking in curves all the way.In the field of chip manufacturing, it has already reached no man's land. Isn't this incredible?

With this thought in mind, Professor Long was finally relieved."Xu Dong and Director Zhou, our team has decided to choose a 256-core Dawn CPU." He smiled and nodded to Xu Zhenming, finalizing the second issue of cooperation between the two parties.

While saying this, Professor Long was already secretly determined, "Our unit must design the Galaxy V CPU. The next-generation Galaxy series supercomputers can only be designed by our Computer Research Institute."

Despite thinking so, Professor Long did not show it."Xu Dong, how do you plan to cooperate in the development of the Galaxy IV supercomputer?"

There was a sentence buried in his heart, and Professor Long was not ashamed to say it in person.He wanted to ask Xu Zhenming how much research funding he is willing to spend, but how can a private enterprise pay for a national-level scientific research project?

At this time, Xu Zhenming gave a reason that Professor Long could not refuse, "Professor Long, how much does the Galaxy IV project cost? Our group company is ready to package it all."

"You...you have to bear all the expenses?" At this time, Professor Gong stared at Xu Zhenming with wide eyes.He didn't react for a while, thinking that his ears seemed to be auditory hallucinations.You must know that the cost of the Galaxy IV project can be a lot, and there is no two hundred million that can't be done.

"Is Xu Zhenming stupid? A private company will burn 200 million yuan to engage in national-level scientific research projects!" Professor Gong thought so, staring at Xu Zhenming with amazement.

Similar to his situation, the other members of Professor Long's team are also the same. At this time, they all looked at Xu Zhenming in a daze."Boss Xu was still domineering and contracted our R&D funds in one go." They all thought.

Professor Long did the same, raised his eyebrows with a smirk, and raised his neck towards Xu Zhenming, "Xu Dong, do you know that this fee is not a small amount?"

"Um...I know, but there is one condition." Xu Zhenming nodded slowly, looking at Zhou Jiawei.

Compared with the expressions of Professor Long and his group, Zhou Jiawei was very calm at this time."A group of buns have never seen the world. Which project of our Yiming Group Company should not burn a huge amount of funds?" He somewhat despised the reaction of Professor Long and others, but did not show it.

"Professor Long, we want to send people to participate in the entire R&D process of the Galaxy IV project. And we also need to have the intellectual property rights of the Galaxy IV project." Abandoning distracting thoughts, Zhou Jiawei put forward the conditions that Xu Zhenming could not directly say.

Before attending the meeting, Xu Zhenming had already explained to him that since Yiming Group is cooperating with Professor Long's team on the Galaxy IV project, it must jointly own the intellectual property rights of this project with the Computer Research Institute of National Defense University.

And now Xu Zhenming has promised to contract the research and development funds for this project. Zhou Jiawei believes that it is only natural for Yiming Group to own the technology patent of the Galaxy IV supercomputer.

In this way, Yiming Group will be able to produce and sell Galaxy IV supercomputers without restrictions.

Professor Long certainly disagrees!

"Huh? Director Zhou, isn't that good. You know, the Galaxy IV supercomputer is a national defense project, and we can't do it in our institute."

In the end, Professor Long does not want to transfer the brand value of the Galaxy series of supercomputers to Yiming Group, and use the name of Longbow Group to bluff people.